The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-02
A pood mature will enable the farmer

about ten cents gallon, as wood pre-,
scrvative. Applied to fences and WOOD
that rests upon the ground, it will add
years to the wear.
Young lambs will begin to come IN
about this time and the ewes should be
we'll sheltered. it does not pay to have
the lambs born in the fields. Give them
plenty of warmth at first.
If rightly managed grade fowls will
do as we'll as any, but keep the flock
weeded of Objectionable specimens, and
supcrsede all grade roosters with pure,
thoroughbreds every year.
We would not undertake to raise
chickens or to keep poultry through the
winter and spring without o plentiful
supply of dry earth. The best time to
store it is whenever it is dry.
Roots are valuable aids to digestion
when given in connection with grain
food, but when fed exclusively or given
lavishly they have too laxative effect,
which quickly runs down the sheep.
The English winter their sheep mainly
on turnips. The focks, turned into the
fields, attack and harvest the turnips,
using all oi the roots which are eatab.e,
and leaving the peeling in the ground.
An excellent method of utilizing the
hay seed and dust is to place it where
the hens can scratch it over. They will
find anite an amount of valuable mate
rial which would be useless for any other
purpose.
If a Holstein COW, giving forty quarts
of milk per day. and requiring no more
room than O common cow, giving ten
quarts, can be raised as easily as the in
ferior one, is it wise in farmers to keep
the poor mixer.
Some believe that stable manure is not
a complete fertilizer for gardens, from its
deficiency of phosphoric acid, and also
as potash, on sandy soils. With these
ingredients added, barnyard manure is
excellent for fertilizing vegetables.
Mr.. Allen says the colt should be
taught to eat as soon as it will pint or
two of oats, with quart or two of wheat
bran daily, and this ration should be
gradually increased with its age, till it
can take double the amount night and
morning.
All fowls that feather slowly are usu-
ally hardy. For instance, the Brahmas.
1t is owing to the fact that the drain on
the system occasioned by quick feather
ing does not weaken them. Slow feath-
ering while growing is indicative OF
hardness.
So important is the knowledge of the
proper mode of feeding, that it is often
possible for an expert to produce more
perfect animal from grade than from
thoroughbred. 4 normal condition can
not be sustained in an animal except by
q mixed diet.
Butter must be fresh to have dainty
flavor, and such can always be sold In
preference to an article made three
months before, it is marketed. Butter is
an indifferent article for cheating pur-
poses. Too large q portion of consumers
are good judges.
A farmer says he secures large crops
by telling his men to harrow the ground
until they think it is narrowed twice as
much as it ought to be, and then he tells
them it is not narrowed half enough.
Turning we'll the ground he says is
more than half the battle.
The following are among the princi-
pal abuses in the care of ewes: l. I'm
proper dieting. 2. insufficient food. 3.
Waut Of regular exercise. 4. Too much
crowding and knocking about just before
lambng. 3. Overlooking at that time.
6. Startling or dogging them by care
less shepherd.
Some of the best paying farms in the
United States consist of almost pure
white sand, but they are devoted to
fruits and poultry, thus economizing
labor and space. The success of farmer
does not depend 80 much upon the quail
ity of the soil as upon the kind of crops
and mode of management.
Spring pigs should not be farrowed
too early. 1t docs not require very Sc
we're weather to kill young pig. April
is soon enough. If given good start in
life under favorable conditions pig will
weiah as much at niue months of age as
it will at a year old when exposed to the
cold during the first two months of its
life.
The new silver geranium introduced
to the floral world as "Mme. Salleroi,"
and catalosucd last season. is considered
as a great acquisition to the silver-lined
class 1t is an entirely distinct variety.
The leaves are deep olive gr,cn in the
centre, with broad white margin. The
plant is of very compact growth, sym
mctrical in form, with dense growth of
foliage and of dwarf habit. 1t is splen-
did variety to grow in pots as aspecimen
plant or to use for bedding or bordeIs.
There nacd never be any scarcity of
water in any district fit for farming il
what falls on house and barn roofs is
saved in cistcrns and used. The barns
needed to shelter stock and the provender
for their winter feed will shed water
enough to last through the dryest time in
winter or summer. For house use rain
water is better than most we'll water,
provided it has first been filtered. Nearly
all we'll water contains mineral impuri-
tics which make it unhealthful for use.